Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 02, 2019, 07:57:59 AMYeaaahhhh...I really struggled through that one.
I'm finding it easier than I remember first time around but it's still a really odd and unsatisfying read. Aside from the fact the Predator itself is so whack compared to what we're used to, I don't recall reading another novel where every protagonist is so thoroughly unlikeable. The open racism from most of the team towards Dillon is especially head-scratching
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Oct 02, 2019, 07:57:59 AM
But you don't read scripts!
I finally pulled my thumb out and forced my way through the various
Alien 3 shooting drafts
Pickett's one was especially strange in that it was mostly the same events, but the leading characters all had markedly different personalities. In particular, Ripley really didn't feel at all like Ripley and Clemens came across as kind of a creepy dick. Maybe Pickett had been reading Monette's
Predator 
Also read the earlier Giler/Hill draft where the bait-and-chase actually takes place in the
middle of the movie. That was some weird shit. All those inmates get killed luring it into the waste tank but then at the end Ripley and Aaron basically beat it up by themselves
Aaron's death in that one was nasty, though.
